Jose' Matos wrote:
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 14:16, Quentin Spencer wrote:
Does grace require fftw 2.x, or can it work with 3.x? The 3.x releases
of fftw are maintained by me in Extras as fftw3. I wouldn't mind seeing
the old one go away if nobody needs it and making fftw3 -> fftw. The
fftw 3.x series has been around for over 2 1/2 years. At what point does
it make sense to move the old fftw to a name like fftw2? Are there any
conventions for this sort of thing?
FWIW and being consistent with other recent changes the best move would have
been for fftw to have become fftw2 as soon as version 3 was declare stable.
I agree, but I introduced fftw3 because there was no interest on the
part of the maintainer of fftw of moving to the 3.x releases. FWIW,
Debian has a fftw3 package.
All the development for this library is happening in version 3, where
release 3.1 is entering beta phase.
So let us request the change, for you it should be enough to Obsolete fftw3,
no?
Then we need to change accordingly the packages that require fftw to require
fftw2 and those requiring fftw3 to fftw. Since packages should only build
require the -devel version if we synchronize our releases all will still
work.
Does this sounds like a plan?
This seems reasonble. Currently, fftw3 is only in the FC-4 and devel
branches. This is because the main reason I wanted it in Extras was for
Octave, which was still in core for FC3. I don't see any particular need
to change everything in FC-4, so maybe we just make the changes in devel
so that they will be in place for FC-5?
If we were to make this change, here are the packages that require fftw:
fftw-devel
grace
(It also appears glame on livna would be affected.)
Here are the packages that currently require fftw3:
fftw3-devel
octave
octave-forge
osiv
plplot-octave
I maintain octave and octave-forge, and having looked at the others, it
appears the plplot dependency is implicit, so the only other package
needing an update is osiv.
-Quentin
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